Ground Zero (2011-2014)

Ground Zero is a work that reflects upon the origin of cities. Every big metropolis have found one to itself. It’s where all the start directs to. It‘s also a way to look at the contradictions of the urban landscape, the distribution of the space (power, money, knowledge) between who owns it, who deserves it and who gets it.

Redemption (2010)

What would you do if you were me?
For redemption, would you throw water at yourself or to the sink?

Instructions are left on the floor, and the people are aware that we are switching places, theoretically. For the redemption purposed, the guest is invited to, if he/she wishes, to take a glass of water, and throw to the performer, or to the sink. When the performer gets wet, red ink falls down off his legs.

Protocol (2009)

pro·to·col [proh-tuh-kawl, -kol, -kohl] Show IPA
–noun
1.
the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
2.
an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, esp. a treaty, is prepared.
3.
a supplementary international agreement.
4.
an agreement between states.
5.
an annex to a treaty giving data relating to it.
6.
Medicine/Medical . the plan for carrying out a scientific study or a patient’s treatment regimen.
7.
Computers . a set of rules governing the format of messages that are exchanged between computers.
8.
Also called protocol statement, protocol sentence, protocol proposition. Philosophy . a statement reporting an observation or experience in the most fundamental terms without interpretation: sometimes taken as the basis of empirical verification, as of scientific laws.
–verb (used without object)
9.
to draft or issue a protocol.
Origin:
1535–45; earlier protocoll < ML prōtocollum < LGk prōtókollon orig., a leaf or tag attached to a rolled papyrus manuscript and containing notes as to contents. See proto-, colloid

Rumos Artes Visuais (2009)

The work presented by Shima uses tapes of isolation in his installations, reconfigure the space as set handling and elusive body in performances. The struggles of the body in the exhibition space, both the performer and the audience, make direct reference to the relations of people in the city. Situations of diversion, welfare, imprisonment or isolation reverberate in the subject transits between urban and among other subjects.
— Paulo Reis, adjunct curator

Body at Risk (2009-2014)

One bottle of vodka, two glasses, one permanent marker pen.
I tried to interact with the audience cheering every little thing, inside a circle of alcohol, sitting on a chair, paying with my consciousness.
I let myself free, without ego, to do everything I can.
A lonely unconscious body performance piece.

Oxygen (2009)

Oxygen,
Blue paper leafs, matches,
variable dimensions,
30min, 2009

Blue paper leafs get different shapes on the stairs, and collected together, while I share pieces of the same paper to the audience. In the end I burn the pieces around me, and some of them go to the sky. The room gets full of burned dust. One piece is left on the stairs.